STOCKTON WARD 



EGGLESCLIFFE 



Magdalen's Day. His heir was a son Thomas, aged 

 twenty-two.'* Thomas occurs again in 1336-7 and 

 1343-4,'* and Thomas son of Thomas Gra of Traf- 

 ford in 1352-5.'* In 1349 Sir Thomas Ughtred 

 paid a fine for having entered the manor of Traft'ord 

 without licence."^ His interest is uniinown. In March 

 1354-5 Thomas Gra of Traftord also paid a fine for 

 licence for the acquisition of part of the manor of 

 Trafford at the instance of John Moubray in spite of 

 the reversion of John de Cotherskelfc, chaplain, and 

 of Thomas son of Thomas de Gra.'*'' Before 1378 

 the manor was acquired by Sir Richard Tempest and 

 Isabel his wife, daughter and heir of John Gra, lord 

 of Studley, Yorks, upon whom it was then settled." 

 Isabel died in August 1421, holding the manor 

 according to the settlement of 1378; the heir was a 

 son William, aged thirty. The tenure was recorded 

 as the fourth part of a knight's fee, and a pair of gloves 

 or zd. '* and suit at the court of Coatham Mundevill.'* 

 Sir William, who obtained the manor of Washington 

 with his wife,*" had livery of the manor of TrafFord 

 in 1421.*'^ He died on 8 June 1 441, holding this 

 manor. The estate included the site of the manor- 

 house, 400 acres of arable land, 60 acres of meadow, 

 a fishery in the Tees, and i 20 acres of pasture."^ His 

 son William, then twenty-three years old,"' had seisin, 

 but died in January 1443-4, leaving a son John, aged 

 two years.*'' Eleanor widow of Sir William held the 

 manor of TrafFord in dower till her death in January 

 145 1-2.*** The infant heir had died, and his heirs 

 were found to be John Norton, aged twenty-six, son 

 of her daughter Isabel wife of Richard Norton, and 

 Denise, aged thirty-six, another daughter, wife of 

 William Mallory.** The heirs received the manors" 

 and lands and in 145 i made a partition,"*' by which 

 TrafFord was given to the Mallorys of Studley in 

 Yorkshire.ss 



William Mallory, who had held his lands in right 

 of his wife, died in or before 1475, holding the 

 manor of TrafFord, with a fishery in the Tees, as 

 well as other estates in Durham ; the heir was his 

 grandson William, of full ace.^" This William died 

 in 1498, holding the same estate, leaving a son and 

 heir John, aged twenty-four.*' John, who married 

 Margaret, daughter of Edmund Thwaites,^- had seisin 



M A L L o R Y. Or a 

 lion guUi Zi'itb a collar 

 argent. 



of his father's lands in 1499*' ; he became a knight, 

 and died 23 March 1527-8, leaving a son William, 

 thirty years of age.°^ In 1528 William had livery of 

 the Durham lands.'" He held the manor about 

 twenty years, and died in 1 547, when his son 

 Christopher, aged twenty-five, was found to be his 

 heir.''' He died shortly afterwards holding ' Straf- 

 fordfeld' ; his posthumous son John became his heir.*' 

 Sir John Mallory of Studley in Yorkshire, Dame 

 Anne his wife, and William his 

 son and heir, in 1605 granted 

 ' the manor and lordship of 

 StrafForthe alias TrafForth 

 Feilds or TrafFord Hill' to 

 William and John Wentworth, 

 younger sons of William Went- 

 worth of Wentworth Wood- 

 house,*" and the conveyance 

 seems to have been completed 

 in 161 3-14.'-"' 



The Wentworths did not 

 retain the manor long, for it 

 was sold to John Witham of 

 ClifFe in 1622.'* Soon after- 

 wards it appears to have been sequestered for his 

 recusancy,' and this was certainly the case under 

 the Commonwealth.- In the latter part of the 18th 

 century it was owned by Robert Raikes Fulthorp,' 

 and about 1830 by Robert Campion, who sold it in 

 1840.^ Theexecutorsof the late Alexander Park of 

 Hutton Rudly held it early in the 20th century, and 

 it now belongs to Mr. W. Clark. 



The Surtees family had land in TrafFord, including 

 a parcel called County Flat.' Part was repurchased 

 by Thomas, son of Thomas Gra.*^ Richard de Scolacle 

 and Alice his wife in I 386-7 acknowledged that land 

 called County Flat, part of the manor of TrafFord, 

 was held of the bishop, and not of Isabel Tempest as 

 of her manor there/ The Killinghalls also for a 

 long time had an estate in TrafFord." 



The church of ST. MARV THE 



CHURCH FIRGIN "=" standson an ancient site and 



consists of a chancel 28 ft. 6 in. by 



I 5 ft. 6 in. with north vestry and organ chamber, 



nave 46 ft. by 20 ft., chapel forming a south aisle, 



'^ Dur. Rec. cl. 5, no. 2, fol. 11. 



'' Ibid. R. 29, m. 4, 15. 



'' Ibid. no. 12, fol. 94, 145. 



^'^ Ibid. no. 12, fol. 5 id. Thomas 

 Ugfitrcd was the son of Isabel daughter 

 of Richard de Steeton and afterwards 

 wife of William Ross of Ingmanthorpe 

 (Dc Banco R. 365, m. 174, 421, m. 

 3S6). He married before 1352 (Feet 

 of Fines, Yorks, tile 109, no. 47) 

 Margaret daughter and co-heir of Brian 

 Burdon, thus acquiring land in Kexby, 

 Yorks, and elscvhere (De Banco R. 41 1, 

 m. 218). Thomas Gray, who may or 

 may not be identical with Thomas Gra 

 of Traflord, held Kexby by lease in 136^ 

 (ibid. R. 421, m. 386). William, son of 

 John Gra, of York, had an interest in 

 Isabel's manor of Steeton in 1341-^1 

 (Cat. Close, 1 341-3, p. 347, 1343-6. 

 p. 365 ; De Banco R. 365, m. 174). 



'"'' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 12, fol. 



'■*?-• 



*' Ibid. R. 31, m. II ; De Banco R. 



$81, m. I. 



'" HatfiiU't Sur-v. (Surt. Soc), 7. 



'" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 208. 



William was heir of both father and 

 mother. 



*" Dr/>. Ktefer'i Rr/>. xxxiii, App. Si. 



*' Ibid. App. 205. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 311; for 

 writ of Difm c/ausit extremum sec Dff>. 

 Kteper^i Rep. xxxiv, App. 24I. 



*^ Dtp. Krrpir's Rtp. xxxiv, App. 24 I. 



'^■' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 164, no. 1; 1;. 

 The bishop granted the wardship to 

 Richard Racket and others {Drt>. Krcftr'i 

 Rep. xxxiv, App. 193). 



''•'' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, tile 164, no. 101. 

 The willow of Sir William received the 

 whole manor of Trafford {Dep. Keepet'i 

 Rep. xxxiv, App. 19^). For writ of Diem 

 cl. extr. see ibid. 262. 



*' Dep. Keeper' t Rep. xliv, App. 514. 



'" Ibid, xxxiv, App. 257. 



»" Ibid. i(,%. 



^'^ For pedigree sec f'isit, 0^ Vorks. 

 (Harl. Soc), 19^. 



^ Mistakenly called his son in Dur. 

 Rec. cl. 3, no. 4, fol. 62-5. See f'.C.H. 

 Yorks. i, 404. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 169, no. 38. 



" Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxvi, App. 3?. 



w Ibid. 47. 



»< Chan. Inq. p.m. (Scr. 2), xlvii, no. 27. 

 This refers to the Yorkshire lands ; some 

 deeds arc quoted. 



" Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxvi, ,App. 142. 



» Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 177, no. 89. 



" I'.C.H. I'orks. loc. cit. 



"' Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxvii, .App. 167. 



w Ibid. 



luo Feet of F. Dur. Trin. 16 Jas. I ; 

 Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 101, no. 106. 



' Pat. 10 Chas. I, pt. xiii. 



^ Royalist Comp. Rec. in Dur. ana 

 Norihumb. (Surt. Soc), 3?, 38. 



* Hutchinson, op. cit. iii, 141. 



* Mackeniie and Ross, op. cit. ii, 76 ; 

 Fordyce, op. cit. ii, 225. 



' Dep. Keeper's Rep. xlv, App. 260-3. 

 It was held of the lord of Trafford. 

 County flatt was locally in Middleton 

 One Row, by Ponteys Bridge. 



' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. i 2, fol. 94. 



' Dep. Keeper's Rep, xxxii, App. 326. 



* Ibid, xliv, 444-7, 472 ; xxxvii, 166. 



^a The invocation of the church was 

 forgotten and for some time that of St. 

 John the Baptist was adopted. 



